Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a mythical manner; by means of mythical fables or allegories.
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- adverb In relation to or by means of
myth
Etymologies
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Examples
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Personally, I'm just waiting for the first right-wing wacko blogger to make the argument that even if Todd did lie, her story was "mythically" true because it represents the real life experience of so many delicate blossoms of young Caucasian womanhood.
Moon of Alabama 2008
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It is clear that he hopes that they will move on, namely in the direction of the mythically self-conscious (at least), and he is strong on the claim that they cannot pretend to prove their existence claims.
Michael Ruse: Religion As Morality: Is This the Way Forward in the Science-Religion Debate? Michael Ruse 2010
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If there's a war, then "Willie Gillis" – aka Robert Buck – became a mythically quizzical hero, clutching food parcels, snoozing on leave or sending the same picture of himself to irate pretty girls.
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This tension is captured most perfectly when Cullum exhorts the boys to sing one of the oldies and they launch into the lovely, pitch-perfect "Southern Days," which sounds exactly like a bygone gem about darkies singing in the fields and the mythically idyllic world of the slave states.
Michael Giltz: Theater Review: "The Scottsboro Boys" Triumphs Michael Giltz 2010
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The most famous Santa Muerte altar in Mexico City lies deep in the mythically “rough” barrio of Tepito, the most notorious neighborhood in all of Mexico.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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Finally, there is the doctrinally-indefinite category, somewhere between the mythically self-conscious and the doctrinally-entangled.
Michael Ruse: Religion As Morality: Is This the Way Forward in the Science-Religion Debate? Michael Ruse 2010
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Next, we have the mythically self-conscious, who like the stories of the Bible but don't think them literally true in any way.
Michael Ruse: Religion As Morality: Is This the Way Forward in the Science-Religion Debate? Michael Ruse 2010
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Next, we have the mythically self-conscious, who like the stories of the Bible but don't think them literally true in any way.
Michael Ruse: Religion As Morality: Is This the Way Forward in the Science-Religion Debate? Michael Ruse 2010
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It is clear that he hopes that they will move on, namely in the direction of the mythically self-conscious (at least), and he is strong on the claim that they cannot pretend to prove their existence claims.
Michael Ruse: Religion As Morality: Is This the Way Forward in the Science-Religion Debate? Michael Ruse 2010
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Finally, there is the doctrinally-indefinite category, somewhere between the mythically self-conscious and the doctrinally-entangled.
Michael Ruse: Religion As Morality: Is This the Way Forward in the Science-Religion Debate? Michael Ruse 2010
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